Archive for January, 2007

EDIT: The wedding is now over and I shot a ton of photos today. I had such a blast with this couple but now I completely exhausted. One of the things I will try to do more often is to post a few photos up right afer each event to “wet” the appetite. I was so happy for this couple! Everything ran smoothly. It was a beautiful wedding. I can’t wait to look over the photos – but I still need to edit couple of more weddings before I can get to these. Here are just couple of photos of the bride and the groom.

Congratulations guys. Best of luck to you in NY!
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I’m up in chicago again this weekend to shoot another wedding. Lately I’ve been shooting lot of couples that I have not met until the actual day of the wedding. One of the challenging thing about that is trying to get to know the couple and their wedding party as much as I can in the short amount of time before the ceremony. I try to do this with all my weddings so that the subjects will feel comfortable with me while I shoot away during the actual event. People tend to relax more and be themselves when they know the person behind the camera. This helps me to capture those “natural” shots .

I have the privilege of photographing a good friend of mine so it was relaxing for a change to just start shooting away at the rehearsal without having to spend the extra time getting to know them before hand. Dan Chung, one of my good buddies from college, is tying the knot. We all know he’s one of the funniest guys out there so I know getting good candid shots will not be a problem at his wedding. I didn’t meet his fianc

EDIT 3: I just heard a funny Devin Hester joke:
Why did Devin Hester not get any Christmas Gifts This Year?
Because he always returrrrnnnns them!!!

har har har. lol. I liked that joke. END EDIT

EDIT 2: One of my favorite movies in 2006: Rocky Balboa
“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!”

“Yo, Adrian… we did it.”

Thanks Rocky for the great memories through the years… END EDIT

EDIT: ALL VIDEOS NOW AVAILABLE
Click on each image to see video recap from each day.

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Everytime I drive to OIL, I always feel like I’m getting lost when I’m actually not. But whenever I see this store off of Route 29, I rest assure knowing that I’m going the right way:

This year I got to serve in the OIL media crew with Chris Sotelo and Dan Ko. We had the privllege of staying up all night to prepare a video presentation everyone morning recapping the events from the previous day at OIL. But as you can imagine, pulling all nighters will make some people go little crazy. Here’s a photo to prove it:

I actually got to sleep couple of hours each night since my task was to shoot the photos and editing them. So as you can tell, I look much better than these guys:

We will post these videos on the OIL website soon. In the meantime, all the photos are now done. Feel free to start by checking some of these out first. Then when you have some time, click this link to view the rest of them (243).

You can also download a panoramic shot of the final worship image here

Hope you enjoyed them. If you haven’t gone to OIL, please make a trip out there next year. You won’t be disappointed!

Happy Belated New Year!